Remembering Chang'an

A landscape gentleman, looking for a place to die for the Holy Emperor, formed an indissoluble bond with Chang'an. From finding a way to make ends meet to encountering a holy emperor to become magnificent, from a rural village to traveling to the great rivers and mountains of China, from a lonely villager to eloping with a princess from the Western Regions, from a stable and ordinary life in Chang'an to a thrilling and unsettling journey to an ancient tomb. The wind blew the willow branches, making a rustling sound. Not far away, three or five children wearing red linen cotton coats, holding windmills in their hands, skipped across the Chang'an Bridge, humming "Chang'an is long, Chang'an'an, there are ancient monsters under the Chang'an Bridge, ancient monsters, ancient monsters, ancient monsters, crooked noses..." This novel and its characters are purely fictitious. Any similarity is purely coincidental and should not be imitated.